May 7th 2007
A Cigarette and a Window
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Boris Fishman
October 6th 2006
Politborough
Glasnost grows in Brooklyn
One sign that this year’s race for the 46th Assembly District of New York was a little different than usual was the alleged involvement of the Kremlin. Ari Kagan, a 39-year-old journalist running for…
October 17th 2005
Burgher King
Richard Stern is the best American fiction writer of whom you have never heard. After more than five decades of dogged obscurity — despite nine novels, five story collections, a half-dozen non-fictional “miscellanies,” and a memoir — he has become…
July 11th 2005
New York Diarist: Ambassadors At Large
The battle for Iraqi hearts and minds continues, and, several weeks ago, the battlefield was a conference room in New York at the Institute of International Education (IIE), which administers the Fulbright grant program. After a 14-year interruption, exchanges with…